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From:   Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan94@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 7 May 2021 09:34:38 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/pelt: Add UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED flag for last_enqueued_diff
To:     Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com>
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
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        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Benjamin Segall <bsegall@google.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 12:26 AM Vincent Donnefort
<vincent.donnefort@arm.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 08:46:08PM +0800, Xuewen Yan wrote:
> > Hi
> > On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 8:28 PM Vincent Donnefort
> > <vincent.donnefort@arm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 07:09:36PM +0800, Xuewen Yan wrote:
> > > > From: Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan@unisoc.com>
> > > >
> > > > The UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED flag had been cleared when the task util cha=
nged.
> > > > And the enqueued is equal to task_util with the flag, so it is bett=
er
> > > > to add the UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED flag for last_enqueued_diff.
>
> Could we change the description here a bit? I don't think this is accurat=
ely
> explaning the issue. Would probably be interesting to mention that by not
> setting the flag, which is the LSB, we add +1 to the diff. This is theref=
ore
> reducing slightly UTIL_EST_MARGIN.

ok, If you agree with this patch, I'll change it in V2.
>
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: b89997aa88f0b sched/pelt: Fix task util_est update filtering
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan@unisoc.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > > > index e5e457fa9dc8..94d77b4fa601 100644
> > > > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > > > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > > > @@ -3996,7 +3996,7 @@ static inline void util_est_update(struct cfs=
_rq *cfs_rq,
> > > >       if (ue.enqueued & UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED)
> > > >               return;
> > > >
> > > > -     last_enqueued_diff =3D ue.enqueued;
> > > > +     last_enqueued_diff =3D (ue.enqueued | UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED);
> > > >
> > > >       /*
> > > >        * Reset EWMA on utilization increases, the moving average is=
 used only
> > > > --
> > > > 2.29.0
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We do indeed for the diff use the flag for the value updated and no f=
lag for the
> > > value before the update. However, last_enqueued_diff is only used for=
 the margin
> > > check which is an heuristic and is not an accurate value (~1%) and as=
 we know
> > The last_enqueued_diff is compared with the UTIL_EST_MARGIN which is
> > "1024/100 =3D 10",
> > and The LSB may cause ~10% error.
>
> I meant ~1% being the original margin. With the bit set, we would use 0.8=
7% instead
> of 0.97%.

Because the within_margin() does not contain =E2=80=9C=3D=E2=80=9D=EF=BC=8C=
 if the enqueued
without the flag, the margin may be 0.97%(10/1024),
with the flag, be 1.07%(11/1024) instead of 0.87% I think.
>
> > > we already loose the LSB in util_est, I'm not sure this is really nec=
essary.
> > I'm also not very sure, maybe the calculation will be more rigorous
> > with the flag?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Vincent
> > >